An Existential-Humanistic View of Personality Change: Co-Occurring Changes with Psychological Well-Being in a 10 Year Cohort Study

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 455-470

  Osafo Hounkpatin, Hilda ^a   Wood, Alex M ^b   Boyce, Christopher J ^b   Dunn, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Five; Existential; Humanistic; Personality change; Psychological well being scale; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939881475     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: 15730921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-014-0648-0     Document Type: Article

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